Tiberius Hemsterhuis
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Tiberius Hemsterhuis (9 January 1685 – 7 April 1766) was a Dutch
Life
He was born in
In 1717 Hemsterhuis was appointed a professor of Greek at the University of Franeker to replace Lambert Bos, but he did not enter on his duties there till 1720. In 1738 he became a professor of national history as well. Two years afterward, he was called to teach the same subjects at Leiden, where he died on 7 April 1766.[1]
He was the father of
Works
In 1706, he completed the edition of Julius Pollux's Onomasticon begun by Jean-Henri Lederlin (1672–1737), but the praise he received from his countrymen was more than counterbalanced by two letters of criticism from Bentley, which mortified him so keenly that for two months he refused to open a Greek book. Hemsterhuis was the founder of a Dutch school of criticism which had disciples in Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer, Jacob van Lennep and David Ruhnken.[1]
His major writings were:
- Luciani colloquia et Timon (1708)
- Aristophanis Plutus (1744)
- Notae, etc., ad Xenophontem Ephesium in the Miscellanea critica of Amsterdam, vols. iii. and iv.
- Observationes ad Chrysostomi homilias (1784)
- Orationes (1784)
- a Latin translation of the Birds of Aristophanes, in Kuster's edition
- notes to Pieter Burmann the Younger's Propertius.
See also
- Friedrich Ludwig Abresch - a Dutch philologist influenced by Hemsterhuis's teachings
References
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hemsterhuis, Tiberius". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 265.
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